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Posted by Neredbojias on 10/19/07 08:07
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:05:22
GMT Delli scribed:
> hi folks, new at posting web videos; just converting from avi's down
> to WMV's and MOV's. need to post some little movies on a friend's
> site: want to give two options for both the WMV and MOV (pc / mac)
> users: dialup & broadband. using WME & QTpro for the conversions,
> which is going well, but two things I'm not sure of: bit-rate for the
> movies, which, I surmise, does a hand-shake with the person's ISP
> bandwidth factor, thereby optimizing their viewability.
>
> i'm working in the range of 200Kbps to 800Kbps (dailup up to
> broadband) for the bit rate of these movies. A dialup friend recently
> told me that her dialup connection (aol) took 20 min to download a 4
> meg WMV movie. for some reason it didn't buffer & play, it dl'd the
> whole thing 1st. prob a tweak I overlooked.
>
> any opinions on bitrate for progressive DL movies and/or max file size
> for DU/BB connections?
Discounting things like 256k or 768k dsl, 800kbps is fine for even the
lower end of normal broadband connections. However, trying to stream video
over dialup is futile. Possibly some Flash may work, but in general it's a
lost cause.
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Neredbojias
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